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NVIDIA’s CES 2014 press conference may not have included any big surprises, but the new Tegra K1 was shown and some other technologies were refined. Hardware Canucks had a front row seat at NVIDIA’s CES 2014 press conference and our editors Matt and Dmitry provide a full video rundown.

Earlier this month, Electronic Arts announced they would be halting all development on future Battlefield 4 projects as they ironed out kinks with the core game. Now, it looks like AMD’s Mantle rollout may be affected as well. Back when AMD’s Mantle was first announced, its potential ability to streamline interactions between a game and [...]

A few days ago, AMD announced that the R9 290X, R9 290, R9 280X, R9 270X and R9 270 would all have Battlefield 4 bundled as a free game. However, that’s not quite the case. Including free games with graphics cards has been all the rage lately with AMD’s Never Settle bundles and NVIDIA’s new [...]

After pressure from NVIDIA’s Holiday Game Bundles, AMD has responded with their own by including Battlefield 4 and Thief with some of their R-series graphics cards. With NVIDIA’s lower prices and extremely aggressive holiday gaming bundles which include up to three A-list titles (not to mention up to $100 off SHIELD for those interested) AMD [...]

In an effort to compete against AMD’s newest releases, NVIDIA has announced price cuts to the GTX 770 and GTX 780. They’ve also thrown the covers off of the GTX 780 Ti’s price. By this point it should be no secret that NVIDIA was losing badly against AMD’s $549 R9 290X and $299 R9 280X. [...]

During NVIDIA’s Montreal event, Tim Sweeney, Johan Andersson and John Carmack began talking about AMD’s Mantle. It was an interesting conversation. AMD’s Mantle has caused some serious waves in the game development industry so it was only a matter of time until it came up once again. This time, we had three of the [...]

After NVIDIA’s G-Sync announcement, ASUS has revealed their plans to include G-Sync on their VG248QE. NVIDIA’s G-Sync has the capability to forever change the way we look at games and their monitor partners have been quick to make their implementations known. ASUS has been the first with a G-Sync version of the popular VG248QE 144Hz monitor [...]

Taking a page from AMD’s book, NVIDIA is now offering up a generous helping of upcoming games with their GeForce cards. Many expected some significant price drops on NVIDIA’s part in order to compete with AMD’s R9 280X and R9 270X. That would mean addressing the current positioning of the GTX 760 and GTX 770 [...]